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Black leaders stand strong for Congresswoman Maxine Waters, champion of economic justice: Poster Description: Da Fukkin Cracka Be messin With Da Sista Maxine Waters
Post Date: 2010-08-07 13:15:27 by no gnu taxes
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Because Maxine Waters and I are very good friends, I have gotten many calls regarding the story in the press about a possible ethics violation. The press is doing the work of its right wing owners. There was no ethics violation.
This story when run opposite the Charlie Rangel story makes good theater. It makes the Democrats look corrupt. There are more than eight ethics investigations being pushed against members of the Congressional Black Caucus. This is 20 percent of the Black Caucus. If there were justice in the application of the Office of Congressional Ethics, the number of white members being investigated would be 80. There is in fact only one such investigation.
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Ron Paul: Arrest and Deport Illegal Immigrants
Post Date: 2010-08-07 12:01:00 by VinnyTex
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Congressman Ron Paul of Texas doesn't mince words. On the subject of illegal immigration he said emphatically, "One important solution is better enforcement of the laws we've got - which plainly call for illegal immigrants to be arrested and deported." He makes clear his position that the responsibility of immigration enforcement is the job of the President, not the Congress. In 2005, Paul wrote: "The ultimate responsibility for our immigration mess, therefore, lies squarely with successive presidents, not Congress. For decades our chief executives simply have lacked the political will, the manpower, or the desire to police our borders and deport lawbreakers. ...
That Was The Week That Was.
Post Date: 2010-08-07 10:32:50 by Skip MacLure
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Another week of unpopular decisions, associated protests by the populace and, at last, some good news (in part) from the Gulf. Elena Kagan was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday, following a 63-37 vote in favor. Ms Kagan is to be sworn in as the country’s 112th Justice later today. Regardless of her political stance, it is incredible that so many Senators could disregard her absolutely dismal performance at the three-day hearing. The fact that five Republicans voted in favor, including Lindsey Graham, is even more worrying. The other four were Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Richard Lugar of Indiana, and Olympia Snowe of Maine. Perhaps they would like ...
Army gags officer challenging Obama eligibility [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-06 23:13:02 by A K A Stone
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FT. BELVOIR, Va. – A decorated military officer who is challenging – in military court – President Obama's eligibility to be president was taken into custody and escorted under guard back to Walter Reed Army Base today after a hearing, apparently so he could not talk to the press or his attorney about his case, according to his defense attorney. The Army held a hearing today at Ft. Belvoir, Va., for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who posted a YouTube video challenging the Army to charge him after he refused to deploy to Afghanistan again this spring because of his concerns that Obama is ineligible to be president, and orders under his chain of command then would be suspect. ...
New Mexico solar firm suspends 1 production line (Every time some one in the Green industry loses their job an angel gets it's wings!)
Post Date: 2010-08-06 19:09:45 by Nebuchadnezzar
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New Mexico solar firm suspends 1 production line ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Schott Solar is suspending one of its two concentrated solar power production lines in Albuquerque. Schott says the suspension will mean laying off about 30 temporary agency employees. The company blames slow growth in the North American market and a slowdown in the Spanish market. Company spokesman Matthew Kraft in Elmsford, N.Y., says Schott had 370 employees in Albuquerque before the announced layoffs. Schott produces photovoltaic panels and thermal receivers at its 200,000-square-foot Albuquerque plant, its flagship facility in North America. The concentrated solar power modules or thermal receivers are used in ...
Consumer Credit - Watch The Revisions! (Large drops)
Post Date: 2010-08-06 19:06:21 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Consumer Credit - Watch The Revisions! Gee, you don't think they're playing with the numbers, do you? http://market-ticker.org/uploads/2010/Aug/ccroc.png Consumer credit decreased at an annual rate of 3-1/4 percent in the second quarter. Revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 9-1/2 percent, and nonrevolving credit was about unchanged. In June, consumer credit decreased at an annual rate of 3/4 percent, revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 6-1/2 percent, and nonrevolving credit increased at an annual rate of 2-1/2 percent. http://market-ticker.org/uploads/2010/Aug/ccout.png Notice that there's no indication of the revisions here. Both Q1 and the first two ...
Ann Coulter To Headline 'Homocon' Event For Gay Conservatives [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-06 18:42:53 by Skip Intro
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Ann Coulter To Headline 'Homocon' Event For Gay Conservatives Conservative pundit and unlikely gay ally Ann Coulter is set to headline the first annual Homocon, "a party to celebrate gay conservatives" put on by GOProud, the "only national organization representing gay conservatives." The festivities are scheduled to take place in New York City on September 25. "The gay left has done their best to take all the fun out of politics, with their endless list of boycotts and protests. Homocon is going to be our annual effort to counter the 'no fun police' on the left," said Christopher Barron, Chairman of the Board of GOProud, in a statement. ...
Obama tells Students: “It’s true I’m not American I come from Kenya”
Post Date: 2010-08-06 10:57:56 by no gnu taxes
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Obama Free Money Policy A Failure : Surprise?
Post Date: 2010-08-06 09:57:07 by no gnu taxes
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Why is this a surprise? Anytime there is free money there is fraud. A total failure. Nothing can be created without effort. THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH! Why is this rocket science? Stimulus Spending A Failure Again Source: Citizens Against Government Waste, "Stimulus Spending a Failure Again," Hawaii Reporter, August 3, 2010. The nation's premier taxpayer watchdog group, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), today expressed more outrage at the Obama administration's $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), or "stimulus" package, following the release of a new study by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.). The report ...
Report Labels Obama’s Response to Spill ‘Failure’
Post Date: 2010-08-06 09:48:10 by no gnu taxes
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Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, released a report today titled, “Failure of Leadership: President Obama and the Flawed Federal Response to the BP Disaster.” The report concludes that “President Obama and Administration officials failed in several instances to remove regulatory and bureaucratic impediments and to ensure that proper and adequate resources were brought to bear in addressing the BP disaster.” The report documents various constitutional and legal authorities available to President Barack Obama and federal agencies under his control-authorities that could have enabled them to respond to ...
Unexpected Consequences.
Post Date: 2010-08-06 05:28:39 by Skip MacLure
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This week, one man overturned the will of seven million Californians, shredding the meaning and intent of the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge Vaughn R. Walker sought to turn the trial into the circus maximus of the gay movement… he wanted cameras in his courtroom to dramatize the proceedings. It was apparent from the beginning that the good judge had a stake in the trial’s outcome. How an acknowledged activist in the gay movement ever became the trial judge on the Proposition Eight issue, without being challenged and forced to recuse, is remarkable. The ultra-left may find that this judge’s self-serving decision, which stands against the beliefs of the vast majority of the ...
BP Completes Cementing Macondo Oil Well From Top
Post Date: 2010-08-05 19:45:48 by Brian S
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Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc completed cementing its Gulf of Mexico well from the top, moving closer to permanently plugging the source of the world’s biggest accidental offshore oil spill on record. The company continues to work on a relief well that will probably intercept Macondo in the middle of this month, BP said in an e-mailed statement. “Everything is progressing well,” Don Van Nieuwenhuise, director of Petroleum Geoscience Programs at the University of Houston, said in an interview today. “They’re being careful and every step they’re taking is just more and more reassuring.” BP temporarily sealed the well on July 15 through a valve stack placed ...
NJ Court: Nazi-Naming Parents Shouldn't Get Kids
Post Date: 2010-08-05 15:58:06 by Brian S
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody of them, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, citing the parents' own disabilities and the risk of serious injury to their children. The state removed Heath and Deborah Campbell's three small children from their home in January 2009. A month earlier, the family drew attention when a supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for their son, Adolf Hitler Campbell. He and siblings JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell have been in foster care. A family court had earlier determined that there was insufficient evidence that the parents ...
Senate Confirms Kagan As 112th Justice With A 63-37 Vote
Post Date: 2010-08-05 15:55:13 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The vote was 63-37 for President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. Five Republicans joined all but one Democrat and the Senate's two independents to support Kagan. In a rarely practiced ritual reserved for the most historic votes, senators sat at their desks and stood to cast their votes with "ayes" and "nays." Kagan isn't expected to alter the ideological balance of the court, where Stevens was considered a leader of the liberals. But the two parties clashed over her nomination. Republicans argued ...
Liberals in denial over Obama’s cosmic failure
Post Date: 2010-08-05 15:09:27 by no gnu taxes
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Last Friday, it was reported that economic growth was only 2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year - far below what the Obama administration had forecast. Yet the administration and its supporters continue to be in denial about the fact that their policies are not working. Psychologists refer to the refusal to change one's mind when confronted with contrary evidence as cognitive dissonance. As almost everyone now knows, there are two competing theories about how to revive the American economy. One theory is to promote the supply-side of the economy by cutting tax rates or at least to maintain the Bush-era tax rates and reduce spending and government regulation; the other ...
Government Says Health Care Overhaul Extends Life Of Medicare Hospital Trust Fund By 12 Years
Post Date: 2010-08-05 11:43:40 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The annual checkup of the government's big benefit programs for the elderly show that the Obama administration's sweeping health care overhaul will extend the life of the Medicare hospital insurance fund by 12 years. But officials cautioned Thursday that the dramatic gain, reflected in the annual trustees report for Medicare and Social Security, will depend on achieving significant savings in health care in coming years. The report found that the Medicare Hospital trust fund will not be exhausted until 2029, 12 years longer than estimated last year. That improvement was credited to the cost savings that will occur with the passage earlier this year of ...
Giuliani's Daughter Arrested for Shoplifting
Post Date: 2010-08-05 11:23:21 by Brian S
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Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's daughter was arrested Wednesday afternoon for allegedly shoplifting at an Upper East Side beauty store, police said. Caroline Giuliani, 20, who lives in the area with her mother Donna Hanover, was apprehended at the Sephora on 144 E. 86th Street and taken to the 19th precinct where she was held in a prisoner's cell, police said. Her mother was also at the station house. Five cosmetic items with a value of $100 dollars were found in her purse, law enforcement sources said. But Caroline also had $300 in cash in her purse, sources said. The alleged theft was caught on camera, according to sources. But the sources also noted that store management may now ...
Carnival Cancels ‘Shoot A Dart At Obama’ Game
Post Date: 2010-08-05 11:19:45 by Brian S
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The head of an eastern Pennsylvania amusement company has yanked a carnival game in which players shot foam darts at an image resembling President Barack Obama. Irvin Good Jr. pulled the target-shooting game after receiving a complaint from a Massachusetts woman attending a fair in Roseto, about 65 miles north of Philadelphia. Good said Wednesday his company, Hellertown-based Goodtime Amusements, won't offer the game again. "It was just a big, big mistake in judgment, and I feel sorry about it," he told The Associated Press. "I can't take it back, but I can try to make it better." The game, dubbed "Alien Attack," featured a large painted image of a ...
The De Facto Unemployment Rate: 25.12%.
Post Date: 2010-08-05 11:15:07 by Capitalist Eric
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The De Facto Unemployment Rate: 25.12%. Working-Class PerspectivesEver since the early 1980s, residents of the Youngstown area have always been skeptical of government’s official unemployment rate. In 1982, the official unemployment rate hit 24.9% but declined to around 12% in early 1984. The Ohio governor and city officials praised the dramatic decline, but local residents knew that rate failed to account for workers who had given up looking for work, were working part-time, or had been forced into early retirement. In a report commission by the State of Ohio, the YSU Urban Studies program found that “real”unemployment rate was over 18 percent or about 1.5 times higher than ...
Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May (More Obama failure)
Post Date: 2010-08-05 09:43:05 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May Bloomberg News / August 5, 2010 WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website. Participation has set records for 18 straight months. Unemployment in July may have reached 9.6 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the Aug. 6 release of last ...
The Show Me State Shows Obamacare The Gate; Won’t Be The Last.
Post Date: 2010-08-05 03:38:52 by Skip MacLure
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It’s not going to take very long either. With the mood in the country going from angry to ugly, other states are considering similar laws of their own, given the resentment that was pretty much universally present when Harry, Nancy and Obama pushed an illegitimate, vast and ill-considered morass of close to 3,000 pages of absolute political psycho-babble through, against the specific wishes of the vast majority of the American people. All the king’s horses and all the king’s spin couldn’t cram that genie back in the bottle. The American people, constantly reminded by the National Patriot movement, haven’t gone back into their between-elections somnambulism. They ...
Old Hag Kathryn Chapman Ruins Fun At The County Fair (THROW THE DART AT OBAMAS HEAD)
Post Date: 2010-08-04 23:37:14 by A K A Stone
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The head of an easternPennsylvania amusement company has yanked a carnival game in which players shot foam darts at an image resembling President Barack Obama.
Irvin Good Jr. pulled the target-shooting game after receiving a complaint from a Massachusetts woman attending a fair in Roseto, about 65 miles north of Philadelphia. Good said Wednesday his company, Hellertown-based Goodtime Amusements, won't offer the game again.
"It was just a big, big mistake in judgment, and I feel sorry about it," he told The Associated Press. "I can't take it back, but I can try to make it better."
The game, dubbed "Alien Attack," featured a large painted image of a black man wearing a belt buckle ...
Reid Surges Ahead of Tea Party Favorite Angle
Post Date: 2010-08-04 19:41:44 by Brian S
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Harry Reid Ahead Tea Party Favorite Angle in new Poll Among Registered Voters Malini Wilkes | August 04, 2010 Print Email Share Comments Recommend Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is leading Tea Party favorite and Republican candidate Sharron Angle 52 to 36 percent among registered voters, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. In the last month the Real Clear Politics average has shown a slight lead for Reid, but the new surge is somewhat of a turnaround for the majority leader, who earlier this year was facing dismal approval ratings and struggling in polls matching him up with potential Republican contenders. Among likely voters, Reid's advantage ...
GM to Invest $500M in Mexico (Bailout for GM, Mexico, but not the average American Joe)
Post Date: 2010-08-04 19:12:59 by Nebuchadnezzar
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GM to Invest $500M in Mexico Wall Street Journal ^ | 8/4/10 | Paul Kiernan Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--U.S. automobile giant General Motors Co. said Tuesday it plans to invest close to $500 million in its Ramos Arizpe plant in northern Mexico to produce a new line of engines as well as a new vehicle. Of that amount, the company is investing $284 million to manufacture eight-cylinder engines with spark-ignition direct-injection technology, known as SIDI, Grace Lieblein, chief executive of GM de Mexico, said at an event. "We estimate that these technologies allow for a 9% improvement in fuel efficiency from current engines," Lieblein said, ...
Pending Home Sales Sink 2.6 Percent in June (RECORD LOW)
Post Date: 2010-08-04 17:47:01 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Pending Home Sales Sink 2.6 Percent in June Published: Tuesday, 3 Aug 2010 | 11:05 AM ET Contracts for pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell to a record low in June as buyers sat on the sidelines, a survey from the National Association of Realtors showed on Tuesday. AP The Realtors said its Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed in June, fell to a record low 75.7 from a revised 77.7 in May. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a rise of 0.6 percent. "We really need to see stronger job creation to have a meaningful recovery in the housing markets," said NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun, adding "there could be a couple of additional months of ...
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